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Thursday, May 18, 2017

"We ask students to explain their theses in 200 of the 1000 most common English words" summarizes Stephanie White, Honi Soit.

Last year Steph White wrote a History and Philosophy of Science honours thesis on the problem of Underdetermination of theories by evidence as it applies in Bayesian and simple deductivist models of theory choice.

In science we try to find the truth, but we usually have
many theories that work with the evidence we have. This means we do not
know which one is true. This is bad because everyone thinks science
knows what the truth is. In this long paper I explain how this problem
exists in the theory of chance worked out in numbers, and show that it
is the same problem as when you model science as a yes or no question.

If we think of science as a series of
choices between theories then science may have forward movement to the
truth. In this long paper I explain why this forward movement can happen
in a good way, and will lead us to an end point of a theory about the
world that is true. This would be good for science.

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I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.